Media role in fostering exchanges emphasized

Media can act as a bridge for people-to-people exchanges and foster mutual understanding among civilizations in an era of divisions and conflicts, journalists said during the 2025 Belt and Road Journalists Forum.

The weeklong forum, whose theme was "Promoting Civilizations Dialogue and Global Modernization with Power of Journalists", concluded on Sunday in Jiangxi province. It attracted around 100 journalists from approximately 50 countries worldwide.

Wang Gang, deputy head of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, in his speech at the opening ceremony, highlighted the importance of people-to-people exchanges in the joint building of the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative.